Example sentences for: correcting

How can you use “correcting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When I missed a good alternative guess at the origin of cold turkey referring to a drug addict who quits abruptly, I received numerous letters from would-be etymologists correcting me.

  • If it encounters a word that is not in its repertoire, it offers a choice of actions: at the stroke of a key or two you can ADD the word to the list; GO ON and ignore the word entirely; or EDIT the questionable item (by correcting a typo, for instance).

  • As a result, over the past several years, GAO has issued more than 80 reports on data and systems security including hundreds of recommendations for correcting both individual weaknesses and the systemic causes of security problems.

  • Distances between each pair of protein sequences in the partial alignment (see above) were calculated using the Jukes-Cantor method for correcting for multiple substitutions at a single site.

  • The final paragraphs carry the news that nuke tests are more important for perfecting new weapons than correcting flaws in old ones.


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